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SIM
SIM Lite Astrometric Observatory ExoPlanet Exploration Program

Key Published Papers

Recent Papers

White Papers

"Measuring the Orbits of Exo-Earths in Multiplanet Systems, the Synergy of Direct Imaging and Astrometry"
Shao, M. et al.

"Astrophysical Noise in Astrometric and RV Search for Exo-Earths"
Shao, M., Catanzarite, J., Law, N.


Refereed Publication

"Sub-Microarccsecond Astrometry with SIM-Lite: A Testbed-based Performance Assessment"
Shao, M, Nemati, B., PASP 2009, 121:41-44.


SPIE, July 2008

"Astrometric detection of exo-Earths in the presence of stellar noise"
Catanzarite, J., Law, N., Shao, M., SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2008, 7013-91.

"SIM-Lite Progress Report"
Marr-IV, J., Shao, M, and Goullioud, R., SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2008, 7013-93.

"SIM-Lite: Status of the Engineering Progress towards flight"
Dekens, F., SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2008, 7013-178.

"Overview of the SIM PlanetQuest Light mission concept"
Goullioud, R., et al., SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation 2008, 7013-177.


IEEE, March 2008

"Looking for Earth-like Planets with the SIM Planet Quest Light Mission"
R. Goullioud, and J. H. Catanzarite, IEEE 2008, 1-4244-1488-1/08.


PASP, January 2008

"Taking the Measure of the Universe: Precision Astrometry with SIM"
SIM Science Team, PASP 2008, 120:38–88.